Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to recruit a specialist, highly-trained early years workforce.
On 3 March 2017, my department published its Early Years Workforce Strategy, setting out actions to support the development of a well-qualified workforce with the appropriate knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high quality early education and childcare for children from birth to age five.
The Early Years Workforce Strategy can be viewed online:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-workforce-strategy